Means for winding and carrying tape, braid, and the like.



E. F. TOIVIKI'NS.

MEANS FOR WINDING AND CARRYING TAPE, BRAID, AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION mm MAY 25 1912.

LQ6L7QD Patented Apr. 9, 1918.

-I. STATES PATENT omen.

EDWIN F. TOMKINS, .OF COATICOQK, QUEBEC, CANADA.

MEANS FOR WINDING AND CARRYING TAPE, BBAID, AND THE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 9, 1918.

Application med m 25, 1917. 7 Serial m. 170,914.

supplied to the trade for the purpose of fa cilitating the manipulation of the tape, braid and the like.

Heretofore it has been the practice to use i rigid spools or tubes to each of which one end of the braid or other flexible length to be wound thereon is fastened by gluing or inning it in' some othermanner; but there has been considerable disadvantage when the end is glued owing to the fact that suflicient time had to elapse to allow the j ointbetween the braid and the collar. to before the winding could be commenced. ith all the other methods of fastening more than one roll could not be wound at a time. For the windin of wider fabrics s lit rolls or cylinders ha to be used with which it was necessary to em loy pins to be inserted through the end 0 the fabric after it was passed through the split, and in other cases a metallic strip was inserted into a pocket or hem at one end of the fabric such end-being in turn inserted into a slit in the shell or cylinder through either end of the latter. The same disadvantage was experienced with these alternative forms when applied to the winding of tape, braid or other narrow fabrics and the factories manufacturing them have practically invariably returnedv to .the use of the rigid unbroken rin with one end of the tape glued to the outsidi of'its perimeter.

My mvention has for its object to provide an attachment to a winding machine by which any desired number of rolls mounted on annular carriers may be wound simultaneously with minimum loss of time, each roll having a firm core or carrier adapted to facilitate manipulation of the tape, braid or the like after being supplied to the tra e.

To this end the invention may be said to consist of'the combination with a winding cylinder, of a series of resilient open rings or collars clasping the cylinder and adapted to receive a folded end of the tape or the like and which when removed from the cylinder grips the folded end. The tape is held in the slit in the collar during the winding operation by a rod removably seated in a groove in the cylinder. In the preferred embodiment of my invention Temploy a series of these rings or collars with a single cylinder rod and provide as many rings or collars as there may be lengths of tape or the like to be wound.

For full comprehension, however, of my invention, reference must be had to the accompanying drawings in which similar reference characters indicate the same parts, and wherein:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a blank from' which my improved ring or collar is formed;

Fig. 2 is an end view thereof;

Fig. 3-.is a longitudinal sectional view of a winding cylinder with a series of my improved rmgs or collars slipped thereon, the rod being in position ready to hold the tape, braid etc., between the aws of the ,rings or co ars.

a Fig. 4' is an elevation, partly in sectional view, of the winding cyhnder, the rings or collars being fully wound;

Fig. 5 is a similar view to Fig. 4 with the rod removed and some of the wound rings or collars slipped from place and others partially displaced;

Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 6-6 Fig. 3;

Fig. 7 is a sectionalview similar to Fig. 6 and illustrating the manner of clamping the initial end of the tape or braid upon the cylinder;

Fig.8 is a plan view thereof;

Fig. 9 is an elevation .of a roll of tape .wound according to my invention and ready for use by the consumer;

held therein by a rigid ollar 3 near one end tube i indicated at 3 and the slit at 4. The.

rings are produced by dividing this tube transversely at 5; the widths of the rings being dependent upon the width of the tape or other fabric to be wound thereon.

The tape or other fabric to be wound is indicated at 6 and the jaws presented by the slit in the ring are indicated at 8 and 9 while the body of the ring or at 10. These rings or collars are of a circumferential length to, when slipped into the cylinder, open sufliciently to have their jaws located at the opposite sides of the groove 3; and the groove is of such a depth that the top of the rod will extend outside of the circumference of the cylinder and prevent mg them firmly in place. The movable col-- lar is then slipped over the free end of the rod and thereby locked. When the desired lengths have been wound on my rings or collars, the collar 3 is removed and the rod withdrawn after which the resilient rings or collars are slid ofl the cylinder and as they approach the smaller end of the latter they adually close until, when just before leavmg the cylinder the slit closes and the jaws grip the folded end of the tape and retain it firmly.

When predetermined lengths have been wound in this manner they are cut, turned in and pinned as at 14 (Fig. 7), after which they are ready to be supplied to the trade.

Although my improved carrier for tape, braid and the like has a certain amount of resiliency before being wound, it presents a rigid support for the wound length owing to the fact that the strip of fabric clamps the sides or jaws of the slit rigidly together and its annular form affords the necessary resistance to the centripetal force of the wound fabric.

The carriers are preferably made of glued laminae of paper as above described, but if desired may be made of pulp board or other suitable light-weight and non-metallic material; and although I prefer a fibrous macollar is indicated 1 terial they may be made of metal or any other more or less resilient material without departing from the spirit of my invention.

'What I claim is as follows I 1. The combination with a winding c linder, of resilient annular carriers each eing slitted parallel to its axis, means retaining an end of tape, braid or the like within the slits during the winding operation, the said means being removable after. the completion of the winding operation and the annular carriers being adapted to contract and grip the inserted ends of the tape, braid or the like and retain the same after the wound carriers have beenremoved from the cylinder.

2. The combination with a winding cylcollars clasping the cylinder and each adapted to receive a folded end of tape, braid or the like, means preventing the rings or collars from. turning on the cylinder, the said rings or collars being adapted, when removed from the cylinder, to contract and grip the said ends of the tape,

braid or thelike.

3. The combination with a windin cylinder havin a longitudinal groove in its perimeter, o a series of resilient open rings or collars clasping the cylinder and each adapted to receive a folded end of tape,

braid or the like, a rod passed laterally through the openings in the rings or collars and seated in the groove with its perimeter extending outside of thecircumference of the cylinder and preventing the rings or collars from turning on ,the cylinder, the said rings or collars being adapted, when removed from the cylinder,to contract and grip the said ends of the tape, braid or the extending outside of the circumference of the cylinder and a series of removable resilient open rings .of less len h than and 'c'lasping. thecircumference o the portion of the cylinder. of greater diameter with the 3aws formed by the openings in the rings located at opposite sides of the oove; and means for inserting the ends 0 lengths of tape, braid or the like to be wound between the jaws to be gripped thereby when removed from the cylinder.

6. As an article of commerce a resilient inder, of a series of resilient open rings or 4. The combination with a tapered windopen ring equal in width to the tape, braid In testimony whereof I have signed or the like to be wound thereon, the jaws name to this specification in the presence of of the ring being adapted to grip one end two witnesses.

of the tape, braid or the like between their EDWIN F. TO -I S. ends for the purpose of positively uniting Witnesses: the ring 'and tape, braidor the like until Gonnon G. Coon,

the latter is completely unwound therefrom WILLIAM J. C. 

